estateCountry House Rescue · Season 3, Episode 1 · Aired March 6, 2011
Wyresdale Hall
Scorton, Lancashire
It is still up and running.
What happened after
Licensed wedding ceremony venue (rustic barns, woodland yurts, manor accommodation) owned/operated by fashion designer Savannah Miller and husband; active Applestore Cafe and Loft Spa on site.
What happened on the show
Wyresdale Hall stands in a thousand-acre estate near the village of Scorton in Lancashire, and its trouble was generational rather than structural. James Whewell had spent since 1967 building the place up, keeping the old rhythms of farming, shooting and fishing alive on the land. His son Jim looked at the same estate and saw a money pit. That clash of temperaments, a father wedded to tradition and a son with a more modern, commercial eye, was the knot Ruth Watson had to untangle at Wyresdale. Her work was less about a single new venture than about brokering a working relationship: helping James's inherited way of running the estate coexist with Jim's instinct to make it earn its keep. It is one of the quieter episodes of the run, a study in whether two people who love a place in different ways can agree on how to keep it, but the stakes near Scorton were the same as everywhere else on the series, an expensive estate that had to start paying for itself.
After the cameras left
Wyresdale Hall has been reinvented, and by an unexpected pair of hands. As of our latest verification pass the estate near Scorton operates as a licensed wedding venue built around rustic barns, woodland yurts and manor accommodation, now owned and run by the fashion designer Savannah Miller and her husband, with an Applestore Cafe and a Loft Spa on site. We fetched the official site directly and found live wedding-venue content and current contact details. The traditional shooting-and-farming estate James Whewell fought to preserve has, under new ownership, become exactly the modern, revenue-generating operation his son once pushed for, weddings and hospitality carrying the land that field sports alone no longer could.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.